Handsome Code Monkey

Beating Envy

What should I get for lunch?

Something that I’ve struggled with is looking at other people’s success and feeling insignificant. I know I should be celebrating success and praising excellence, but more often than not it makes me feel small and envious. It doesn…

How to have awesome sick days.

Cough cough

Actually rest and get better

Don’t push it, you’re only going to get worse and get other people sick (see No. 6).

Failure Points for new programmers

In the first part of the “4-Hour Chef,” by Tim Ferriss (a book that teaches learning how to learn through the vehicle of cooking) he talks about something called failure points.

“The hypothesis: if I can address the primary, but often ignored…

Hey, New iOS Devs. Don’t forget about Objective-C.

As a new iOS Developer you should be rejoicing with all the opportunities we have with Swift 2.0, Watch OS 2, tvOS, etc. But there’s one other technology, that you should be excited about.

Objective-C

Don’t forget about your other relationships.

When people say they want to focus on relationships, usually they talk about their significant other, family, friends, and their network. They focus on people, but there are other relationships that people should think about. Things like the…